Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 1, 2016 10:49:16 GMT
As every election since 1992, this one on June 28th brought Mongolia a PowerChange.
The ruling anti-communistic Dem.P. lost 25 seats (leaving them with 9), while the ExCommunists (M.People'sP.) gained 39, bringing them a broad majority (65 of 76).
The nostalgic MPRev.P saved 1 (-10), as did the Independents (-2).
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 1, 2016 10:53:49 GMT
The really interesting thing is certainly, to what extent the parties&politicians are pro/contra China, Putin or USA.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 11:00:09 GMT
As every election since 1992, this one on June 28th brought Mongolia a PowerChange. It was on the 29th. MPP 65 DP 9 MPRP 1 Independent 1 A lot of DP heavyweights lost incl. Speaker Enhkbold, PM Saikhanbileg, former PM Altankhuyag and Minister of Justice Temuujin. The Indie is Nationalist musician Samandyn Javkhlan. The Civil Will Green Party was ousted from parliament with this election. Its two former MPs either chose not to run (long time MP and former Foreign Minister and Minister for Green Development S. Oyun) or defeated as a DP candidate (S. Demberel). Even the MPRP only got one seat. MPP has significantly higher party discipline than DP, so this should make for a very strong government. They also won the Ulaanbaatar municipal election with 34 seats to DP’s 11 in the City Council. MPP leader Miyegombyn Enkhbold will be the new Prime Minister, but no info on who he might appoint to the cabinet, or how many members of the cabinet will be MPs. "The biggest question the MPP will have to address: will it choose to take “revenge” on the DP (especially on appointments to public service positions, and on the politicization of the security apparatus, and the courts), or will it restrain itself in the name of the good of the country?" DP rotated an enormous amount of officials and MPP will reverse some, but the question is how low in the bureaucratic order they will go? The fear is that the country will get a new cast of people in ministries, government bodies, and educational institutions - and that this will create chaos. DP has politicized the judicial system and anti-corruption, so MPP might take over these positions and target political opponents. Given the enormous public debt amassed by previous governments, the state budget doesn’t leave much room for any major initiatives. Observers do not expect major changes in foreign policy, economic development or social policy. Simply because the new government hasn't got much leeway. Which will then likely lead to another protest election next time, but MPP are probably better administrators and somewhat less corrupt. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 11:11:15 GMT
The outgoing "Reform Coalition" government was a heterogenous coalition designed to break the dominance of the ex-Communist MPP (formerly MPRP), which is now back in charge. They made a fatal miscalculation by going back to full FPTP shortly before the election, which made their loss much worse than it had to be. MPP reportedly won a large number of constituencies with relatively small margins.
There hasn't really been a "power change" at every election. After multi-party politics was introduced in 1990 the MPP remained in charge until 1996, and then returned to government in 2000–2004. From 2004–2008 it was in coalition with the Motherland Party and 2008-2012 with the Democratic Party (despite having a majority). The 2012 "Reform Coalition" was an attempt to break free of this MMP dominance.
The current MPRP is the personalist party of Nambaryn Enkhbayar (58) Minister of Culture 1992-96, Prime Minister 2000-04, Speaker 2004-05, and President 2005-09 (first man to have held all of the "top three") He was the chairman of the ex-Commies 1997-2005 (they were then known as the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party - MPRP).
After losing the presidency Enkhbayar established his own political party in 2010 and decided to name it the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (the previous owners of this historic name now being known as the Mongolian People's Party) and got the Supreme Court to accept that. He then got arrested for corruption related charges in 2012 and was held in (extremely luxurious..) incarceration. He claimed President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj had engineered the corruption case to keep him from running in the 2012 elections. He got convicted and sentenced to seven years (three of which was pardoned) for misusing state properties and government power. He spent less than a month in prison and was then moved to a luxury hospital for high ranking government officials by Health Minister Natsagiin Udval (the SG of his own party..).
In 2013, President Elbegdorj pardoned Enkhbayar. Its a strange story and international observers tend to agree the charges were at least blown out of proportion. But its clear his party partly entered government to protect their leader.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 1, 2016 11:48:10 GMT
The ruling anti-communistic Dem.P. Are they to the right of Genghis Khan ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 11:51:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 12:05:57 GMT
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Post by john07 on Jul 1, 2016 13:03:10 GMT
ExCommunists ( M.People'sP.) quote] Do they search for the hero? |
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Post by mboy on Jul 2, 2016 9:46:30 GMT
They made a fatal miscalculation by going back to full FPTP shortly before the election, which made their loss much worse than it had to be. MPP reportedly won a large number of constituencies with relatively small Margins. F*cking morons. They deserve what they get, for that alone. |
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